Keane have been talking about their new album to 6Music, and it's apparently a bit of a beast. Well, that's what they said. They also explained how they felt under a great deal of pressure after their 2004 debut 'Hopes And Fears' became a runaway success.
Drummer Richard Hughes said: "I think to start off with we felt a lot of pressure, but I think we reached the point where we thought 'Actually if we keep worrying about what everyone's going to think, this is going to turn out to be a rubbish album'. So we just thought 'Let's lock ourselves away and do whatever excites us really, makes us feel that sort of thrill of making music'. We ended up with a sort of weird rock and roll beast of an album."
Bandmate Tim Rice-Oxley added" "Towards the end of last year we were all kind of completely brain dead and exhausted. I think we all felt like we really wanted to have a break from touring, but it's funny how you have a few weeks off and you start to get twitchy. Now we're absolutely desperate to get out on the road again, we've got a bunch of new songs and I can't wait."